Hindi TV Serial - Diya Aur Bati Hum - Chhavi blames Sandhya for her problems in the exam hall

For Chavvi, the exams are a top priority right now, and all because till now she had not been paying any attention to her studies. However, the last time she met her fiancee Dileep, her future mother-in-law made it clear that they were looking for a daughter-in-law who was well educated, and for that, it was important for her to clear her exams. However, till now, she had not given any priority to her exams. Now it was a challenge. She tried to figure out a way to cheat but was puzzled in the actual paper when it turned out that the questions were different from what she was expecting. She finally saw a solution when Sandhya's papers dropped on the floor and she was able to pick it up and write the answers from there. However, she was caught and even though she denied at that time that Sandhya had given her the papers, she had to think of a solution for home. After all, she was denied from giving the papers and her answer sheet was seized.
So she came home and made up the story that Sandhya was trying to help her and her answer sheet was found with Chavvi and hence it was because of Sandhya that she was prevented from giving the exams. Sandhya totally denied this and said that she did not do anything and it was totally Chavvi's fault. However, Meena did her bit to provoke Bhabho, getting the matka for Bhabho to break and claiming that this will break Chavvi's marriage and so on. Bhabho gave Chavvi another chance by telling her that she lied many times in the past and does she want to change her story, but Chavvi refused to changer her story and claimed that it was Sandhya at fault.
As a result, with the 3 matkas that Bhabho had kept for breaking as a result of mistakes of Sandhya, she broke the first one and gave a date of Sandhya's birthday for the remaining 2 matkas. Sandhya is very disappointed and angry over what has happened and Suraj tries his best to ensure that he calms her down and tells her to expose the truth. She decides to do that, although it is not clear right now as to what she will do. The people in the exam hall know the truth, so maybe that is one avenue.
At the sweets shop, Suraj has a big order and has kept it all in the shop, but Emily, Chavvi and Meena all go to the shop for different reasons and will leave the shop open, causing rats to come in and spoil some of what Suraj has prepared.

Hindi TV Serial - Amita Ka Amit - Amita wins the total trust of her mother-in-law Falguni

Amita has been under a lot of trouble. There was the case of the file which was stolen by Tina and Ria to make it seem that Amit is irresponsible and so it seemed. Amit got into a lot of trouble over that missing file and his father scolded him a lot for that. Amit in turn blamed Amita for the missing file since she had done a lot of re-decoration of the room because of her belief in seeing that feng shui will make life better. Amita is very upset about where the file can be, and wants to search the entire house. Through a guise, she is able to look in the bedroom of Tina and gets a glimpse of the file, before Tina closes the almirah and scolds her for peeking in the clothes of others.
Amita is unfazed at this and decides to get more help, and tells Amit about this although he is reluctant to believe her. However, she insists and soon Tina calls Falguni, claiming that they were being insulted by the new bahu of the house who claims that Tina and Ria have stolen the important file. However, Falguni keeps a cool head and asks them as to why they just don't let her have a look. Finally, the cupboard is opened and there is no file there, although Amita is convinced that the file was there, but has to retreat. Amit continues to scold her.
In the end, Amita gets the file when Ria is dumping it in the waster bin, but Tina reaches there and blames Amita for everything and pins the blame on Amita. Amit is very upset over this entire matter, since it seems to show his father that he is careless.
In the next major incident, Falguni has given some priceless antique jewels to a jeweller but when she goes there, she realizes that she does not have any receipt and gets a shock when the manager of the shop and the jeweler's son have decided to steal those jewels and claim that she never got those. She is shocked and when back home, tells everything to Amita and not to others in the house. Amita takes responsibility for the loss of jewels and in the meantime is trying to get the jewels back using other tactics. The problem is, the jewels are needed the next day since they are required for a prayer, and Tina sees a great way to pin Amita down further. Amit has also given her another scolding.
The next day, Tina is enjoying the situation since the time for prayer has come, and Amita is not even there. However, Amita goes to the jeweler's shop and scares the manager and the owner's son by claiming that she knows the head of the market association and also, that since there are CCTV cameras, the police can detect who stole the jewels, and also the owner would be interested in knowing how the shop is being operated. She gets the jewels back, while at home, Falguni could not take the criticism of Amita and said that she was the to blame, and not Amita, and in the meantime, Amita also comes back with the jewels.

Hindi TV Serial - Diya Aur Bati Hum - More twists in the serial with Mohit and Emily

The serial is planning to take its viewers through more twists and turns; now, even though they do show most of the conservative elements of Indian society in some way, the serial does show changes brought forward in this society due to education, and due to sheer persistence. The serial has been criticized in some aspects because of the sheer conservatism of the family and the reluctance of the educated daughter-in-law of the family to significantly object to some of these customs - instead she does oppose them but not in a direct way; instead the show shows her trying to use slow processes, but based on logic and reasoning to make these changes, backed solidly by her husband (one wonders how this would have turned out if the husband, Suraj, had not been supportive of these changes but had instead been as conservative as anybody else).
After the expose of the Swami, Sandhya gains more respect due to the logic and reasoning she used to expose the Swami and his plans of usurping land by building a mall in the region. The expose of the miracles done by the Swami meant that people understood how those miracles were happening and also ensured that the trouble that her family was going through finally disappeared, and that her family was able to hold up its head in society again (there was a time when the efforts by the Swami meant that her family was being exposed to actual physical harm).
Now, one of the byproducts of the effort done by Sandhya was that Bhabho ensured that she would be able to go to college in the day instead of in the evening / night (the family was surprised when a letter announcing her admission in the college came, and even more when it was revealed that it was Bhabho who had caused this to happen). Meenakshi was very surprised since this meant that there was more affection between Bhabho and Sandhya, and the possibility of Bhabho getting angry and kicking Sandhya out of the house had reduced for now (till the time that the serial wants more masala in the serial).
The next major problem in the serial will come to challenge Bhabho's belief in no cross-caste or cross-religion marriage, since she will find that her own son is involved in a relationship with a Christian girl, a shocker for sure. Meenakshi will discover that Mohit is in a relation with Emily, and her nosy nature will lead her to learn that Emily is actually pregnant with Mohit's child, which will be a shocker for Bhabho in more than one way. What will Bhabho do now ? Or will Mohit actually get married to Emily and then present Bhabho with a decision already taken.

Hindi TV Serial - Pyaar Ka Dard Hai...Meetha Meetha - Condition set by Avantika that Adi and Pankhuri stay apart for 15 days

The serial is showing a twist that not too many people who would have thought would have happened. Not telling Avantika about the marriage was a step that was always fraught with risk, since it was impossible to think that she would not find out in the end (especially with Pankhuri's family also involved); the only point being how long this relation would remain hidden, and whether Mama-mami would find out about this before Avantika and seek to make some benefit out of this. However, Avantika found about the marriage when Pankhuri's parents and other relatives came there to see Pankhuri and how she was faring in her new home (they were not particularly pleased with the marriage because of what had happened earlier).
When Avantika found out, she did a lot of question and answer about the marriage, calling Adi there and asking him about the circumstances of the marriage. The initial fear was that Adi would have got married without his permission, having been pushed into the marriage, but Adi denied all this and stated that the marriage happened because he jumped into the gap when Shivam was stepping back. Avantika also expressed the worry that this was a marriage between 2 very different people and hence it would not last much and she did not want Adi to go through the same pain as she went through.
As a result, she set the condition that she wanted both of these to stay separately for 15-20 days right in the beginning, something that no one was really happy about. Harish managed to get the condition slightly modified so that Pankhuri would stay with Avantika while Adi would stay with Harish. There was some strain between Aditya and her parents, but that reduced when Ambika suffered an injury and Adi took some quick action to help her. However,  the biggest issue right now is that both of them are somewhat unsure of their relationship and love with each other, they consider each other to be a very big friend of the other, but does this extend to a husband and wife relation. Maybe it does, but they are not able to express this to each other. And then there is the cousin, Ruben, who is the son of Mama-Mami who got into a tiff with Pankhuri over a local accident and had to spend some time at the police station and who considers all the property and business to something that he has full rights over.

Hindi TV Serial - Bade Ache Lagte Hain - Becoming slightly unbelievable now, need to change quickly

One wonders how serial makers can suddenly make such plots which seem very ridiculous to the viewers of the serial. In the current case, there is a plot line associated around using the differences between Natasha and Karthik to create differences between Ram and Priya. This is shown as being the planning of Niharika, but the number of holes in this planning is such that the entire plot-line seems unbelievable.
The plan is that it is shown that Natasha comes home with a lot of injury marks, and this causes Ram to go ballistic. Since Nuts has claimed that this was the doing of Karthik, he reacts very violently to this, and puts the police after Karthik, and Niharika gets a case filed against the entire family which causes them all to go to jail. However, this is not the end of it. After they come out of jail, Niharika learns that Karthik and Nuts have made up, and she causes Nuts to vanish from the scene, something for which Ram blames Karthik and vows to put him behind jail for a long time (this sudden blame and the reaction of Ram seems a bit out of character - if he does his business in such a judgmental basis, then he will get into a lot of problems).
The biggest problem is the behavior of Nuts. She goes along with what her  mother is saying, and she does know the impact this will have on her inlaws; and more importantly, when she learns that Karthik has been jailed for kidnapping her, why she does not use her phone for calling Karthik or Ram is incredible. And Karthik does not try to call her either in this time (and she is seen as having her phone). The police also do not seem to be monitoring her phone, which they should have been doing if they were trying to find her. These are very strange and unnatural things.

Hindi TV Serial - Saathiya - Rashi trying to create differences between Hetal and Kokila

The serial seems to be working through something similar to what happened a few weeks back, when Rashi was kicked out of the house and was taken back with great difficulty, and the same thing seems to be happening now. For some time Rashi stayed away from her mother Urmila, since it was her mother who used to do all the manipulations, and then she saw that she was not getting the same treatment as Gopi, and resumed her previous methods of trying one trick after another.
One of the reasons that Rashi was getting verbally battered in the house for her tactics was that Kokila was wise to her tactics, and Hetal would normally follow whatever Kokila recommended. So the plan hatched by Urmila was to try and separate them, such that Hetal would start to feel that she was getting ignored; and this was done by Rashi to some amount of satisfaction, whereby she was slowly stoking a feeling in Hetal about injustice being done to her due to the power of Kokila. So, there started growing some cold vibes between Hetal and Kokila, and Gopi was able to perceive some of them and do a few things so that this feeling would not increase.
But now Rashi has increased the level of her tactics, and it seems that some of these will cause her problems, especially when she got a big size laddu to the temple and had to hold the laddu for a long time causing her great distress. For her revenge, she tried to get a lot of chilli powder on Kokila (something that can really get her in trouble), but it seems that due to divine intervention, things turned the other way and all the chilli powder landed on her.
With Kinjal, a different story is brewing. Due to a statue of Kanha in her room releasing water, she is now being seen as a devi in the neighborhood, while the struggle for the lottery money in the house between Kinjal and Urmila is simmering.
And the other parallel track is about the impending coming together of Ahem and Gopi as they are getting physically closer to each other, with Gopi knowing nothing about the reality of physical relationships.

Hindi TV Serial - Pavitra Rishta - Manav gets to know that Teju is in Mumbai, driving a taxi

Things are getting more complicated, with people slowly getting to know the truth about many things, but the biggest disclosure, about whether Archana was the one who was demanding money from Manav or not, is something that is not yet clear whether it will be revealed. When they show Sachin showing some good tendencies from time to time, then it seems like that at some point of time, Sachin will tell Manav the truth, but at other points of time, not sure about how the truth will be revealed. however, the serial is taking its own time to reveal everything, with step by step disclosures.
So, for some time now, there was the almost close meetings between Manav and Teju, but this meeting finally happened when Teju was driving the same taxi which was carrying Manav; Manav was shocked to know about this and then calls up Teju and scolds her a lot. But when she finally meets with Manav, she quickly responds back to Manav's allegations by telling her baba that he also lied to all of them by staying with the same woman that all of them hate, and not telling them about it. And when she listens to the 6 months court condition, she tells him that she will then come to Manav herself once he no longer stays with his wife.
The next big surprise would be when Teju gets to know that Sulochna is her grandmother and Archana is her mother; that will be the biggest surprise since she has been told that they are bad people, after money and who willingly left their own daughters. The other big shock will be when Purvi and Arjun find themselves admitting their attraction to each other.

Hindi TV Serial - Saathiya - Gopi finally recovered, and Rashi being taken back to Modi house

After some long tense moments (caused due to Gopi getting injured by a falling slab after the rescue of Rashi from the kidnappers), finally the doctors declared that Gopi is out of danger. There was all the usual drama, such as the fact that her blood group was a bit different (apparently only Urmi had that blood group, and not even Rashi, her own daughter). Urmi first refuses to give blood, and is then firmly persuaded to give her blood.
Finally, Gopi is fine, and though the doctor was worried about her going into coma, some strong words from Ahem persuaded Gopi that she needs to get better, and she did not fall into a coma. Now, there is a changed Ahem, who probably realized how much he actually loved Gopi. He cares for her, spends a lot of time in the hospital while she is recovering, show a lot of his care, and overall does a great job of portraying a concerned husband.
Finally, it is time for them to come home, and Ahem gets her discharged from the hospital and brings her home. At this time, Gopi asks Koki to forgive Rashi, something that Kokila is not really willing to do, although she has seen some signs of change in Rashi (she is mostly angry with Rashi for forever planning something cunning, mostly inspired by her mother Urmi). Rashi's husband Jigar also notices a transformation in her, especially when she asks for forgiveness from Gopi, or when she took her mother out of the hospital.
So, finally the Modi ladies go to Rashi's house and decide to bring her home, something that leaves both Rashi and Urmi very surprised and shocked. Urmi warns Rashi that this is not the end, that she will not get her true status and will need to do more drama, but Rashi is somehow finally recognizing that her mother's tactics are causing all the problems.

Hindi TV Serial - Saathiya - Rashi and Urmila trying to get Rashi back in the house

The serial is typically a very melodramatic serial, with a lot of drama in every episode; I am sure the script and dialog writers must have been told to put as much drama as possible even in every dialog. So, when the mother-in-law speaks to her daughter-in-laws, you feel as if something is about to happen. Similarly, when even the door bell rings, everybody's face takes on an expression as if something strange is going to happen.
So, when the melodrama in the serial increases, things get even more interesting. In the current case, Rashi had been kicked out of the house, and Urmila was trying all tactics to get her back. For some time, she tried to create a drama in front of the Modi mansion, and then when that did not work, she tried to use the police to threaten Kokila and the family, but that did not work either.
In the meantime, Kinjal and Dhaval are also in the Modi mansion, where Dhaval is feeling uncomfortable about being there, but the others are trying to make him comfortable. Kinjal on the other hand is trying to be as clever as she can; she tries to get her shoes cleaned by Gopi and Koki sees that and gives her a right scolding about being respectful towards her elder bhabhi and doing her work herself rather than trying to manipulate people; especially somebody like Gopi who cannot say no to anyone.
In the meantime Rashi and Urmila have got hold of Nani, in the hope that they will get her to reverse Kokila's decision; but Nani has such a forgetful nature that they should not be hoping that something useful will come from her side. They manage to get her in an auto to the Modi house, but one is not sure whether their plan will succeed.

Hindi TV Serial - Saathiya - Rashi asked to leave the house, her mother will fight back

The family has a pride in terms of being good straight people. So, when Koki learns the truth about the lies of Rashi and Urmi, she is shocked and decides to expose all that Rashi has done in front of everybody. This is a shocker for everybody. But before this, Rashi has already gone off to her mother's house with her luggage, and Jigar goes there to pick her up so that she can be there in the house for Diwali celebrations (so far only Jigar knows that she has gone there in a huff).
So, finally Rashi comes back to the house, where she is happy that Jigar has come there to pick her up, and that she is important for the household. However, Rashi is in for a big shock when she comes back to the house, since Koki subjects her to an interrogation as soon as she comes inside, and that too, in the full flow that Koki is capable of. Even though others try to stop her, she shuts everybody up (including Gopi who tries to intervene but is forced to keep quiet).
Soon, the others find out about everything that Rashi and her mother are done, and when Jigar admits that he knew some of this, there is confirmation as well. It is at that point that Rashi is turned out of the house. Her mother is shocked at this and cannot stand such a thing happening. She comes to the house in order to try and bring her daughter back, but does not succeed. So she starts a new drama where she sits at the gate of the house, claiming that she will not leave till they take her daughter out, but Koki tells everyone to ignore this drama, telling Ahem to be quiet, although he is getting very angry and wants to call the police to sort this out. When Gopi is going out to meet Urmi, Koki stops her as well.
The next part of this drama will be where Urmi attempts to use the drama of some injuries on Rashi's body in order to claim that she was being tortured for dowry, and there will be the need for CCTV footage in order to verify the truth.

Hindi TV Serial - Bade Acche Lagte Hai - Ram has a falling out with Vikram over the theft of a necklace

The serial started out with some light hearted behavior, but as the 2 new brides move into their new houses, things will get more complicated. Priya has started expressing her opinions to Ram, and this raises sparks often enough since Ram has got used to the idea of being able to do what he wants, without anybody interfering with him. So, the concept of somebody moving into his house and telling him what to do can complicate things enough. Also, when he yells at her, she does not take this lightly and replies back to him in the same tone, increasing the discomfort he feels.
Things get more complicated when an antique necklace is brought home so that it can be presented to the new daughter-in-law of the house. However, Ram's stepmother cannot stand the concept of this huge necklace going to that girl from the small household, and wants the necklace for Siddharth's wife, whenever she comes to the house.
So they plan a trick whereby they will steal the necklace, and in such a way that no suspicion will come on them. So, Siddharth convinces Vikram to take the necklace from the safe for safe-keeping (and all this is dutifully recorded by the CCTV camera). Soon after, her brother picks the pocket of Vikram and takes the necklace and turns it over to Siddharth and his mother. When it is found that the necklace is missing, the footage of the CCTV is shown and Vikram is seen to be taking the necklace. As a result, Ram has an uncomfortable discussion with Vikram where Vikram gets the concept that he is being accused of stealing the necklace, and when he points out that Siddharth told him to do so, he is shocked when Siddharth denies it. As a result, Vikram eventually leaves, and then decides to quit the company as well.

Hindi TV Serial - Pavitra Rishta - Varsha going into a psychotic mode, pining for Soham

Things are getting tricky for various characters in the serial. The relations that were proper between the various members of the serial (except for the set of Manju, Vinod, Ajit and Rasika) has always been cordial, and Maanav, with his success is a great supported of everybody else. However, Savita is always the tricky one, since she was susceptible to being provoked. Rasika decided to use this personality twist in order to turn Savita against her own daughter-in-law Archana, and she seems to be succeeding in this attempt.
In the midst of all this, since Varsha is not able to bear a child, her quest for attaining Soham is incredible. She kidnaps Soham from Maanav's house, and even when she is found out, she is really not apologetic. Soon, her mental condition becomes worse and she even starts believing that Archana has handed over Soham to her. Sathish is very shocked at this transformation in Varsha; Maanav on the other hand starts getting very protective of his child and refuses to let Archana go near Varsha with Soham. When Archana tries to push, he gets very angry at Archana and issues between them become bad for some time.
On the other hand, Savita wants to take revenge on Archana and so encourages Shravani to take back Sachin and also that Archana should give Soham to Varsha; as a result, Archana will not have any of her children with her and this will be the just reward to her for whatever she has been doing wrong.
Varsha gets even more psychotic, attacking her own mother-in-law with a glass bottle, and is now shown to a doctor for analysis. The doctor diagnoses her as having a mental problem that will get worse unless things are rectified.

Hindi TV Serial - Pavitra Rishta - Varsha apparently kidnapping Soham

2 major events have been happening in the serial. One is a ongoing divide between Savita and Archana. Over a period of time, Archana had managed to bring herself back into the good books of Savita through multiple efforts, and because of her basic goodness. However, there was always something in Savita's nature which made her liable for being manipulated by others; and in this case, Rasika decided to try and turn Savita against her own family members by using money as an instrument. Rasika was very angry over what she perceived as Savita's arrogance after Manav became successful, and decided that she would try and see that Savita lost everything. So, she starts poisoning the mind of Savita against Archana (using the presence of Sulochana in the house - Sulochana had been turned out by Manjusha, and after being out for some time, she was taken by Manav and Archana back to their house).
Due to some situations, Savita becomes convinced that Archana was trying to take money away from Manav and even give some of this to Sulochana, and hence starts to become negative towards Archana and Sulochana (and the sisters of Archana). This increases when there is a situation where Manav was going to give money for Ajit's business and for an apartment; and then Archana refuses to give the money since she hears that Ajit was going to misuse the money.
On the other front, things get more tricky when Varsha is shown as kidnapping Soham from the house, and taking him away when Archana is briefly not in the house. The police are called and call all the family members (angering many of them), but so far they are not able to determine who has taken Soham; but Savita has her doubts about Varsha.

Hindi TV Serial - Pratigya - Delivery of a baby boy of Kesar, Pratigya helps

The serial is undergoing some more tension. Amma is suffering on 2 counts. First Pratigya, in order to show Krishna the reality of everything that he believes, calls Amma in the guise of signing the divorce papers and causes Amma to reveal about all the steps she had taken to portray Pratigya in a bad light. So now Krishna knows that Pratigya was not at fault, and it was all the doings of Amma. Krishna is very apologetic after all this, but Pratigya does not forgive him easily, and makes him suffer before she believes that his feelings are genuine.
The more drama is happening at the Thakur household, since SS has got back a young girl called Ganga, given by her poor father in lieu of the rent that he was to pay to SS. SS is pretty happy, since he seems to have got bored with Amma, but Amma is shocked at whatever happens. She is shocked since SS has got the new girl while also seeming to reject Amma. The other family members are also shocked at all this, even Pratigya wants to ensure that Amma gets her proper place back in the household (she has even been kicked out of her room by SS); she puts Amma's stuff back into SS's room even though everybody knows that SS will be very angry.
The other major drama (happy news) is that Kesar is in the final stages of pregnancy, and Pratigya is in the house when she starts going into labor, and Amma and the others are not there. Pratigya calls up her house and gets information from the female members of her family about how to do the delivery, and after a lot of effort, the baby is born, a son. This is the first young generation in the Thakur household, and everybody is very happy. SS tries to praise Ganga, saying that her presence in the family has started bringing happy news; Shakti is very happy at this news.

Hindi TV Serial - Ram Milaayi Jodi - Finally Mona gets the approval of Ambaji, and Anukalp faces fresh problems in the office

The serial shows the marriage between 2 different cultures, with a Gujarati boy and a Punjabi girl. Right from the start they show the girl facing all types of issues, some due to her own mistakes, and some due to some misunderstandings. Overall, Mona faces problems in her relations with her mother-in-law Ambaji; for some time Amabaji believes that Mona is creating differences between Ambaji and her son; things go so bad that for some time, they would show Mona crying over something or the other for the entire episode, and people in the family scolding her. Further, since Ambaji was doing the scolding, the others in the family also joined in.
However, Mona kept on doing her efforts to do things better for the family, and as a part of that, she even started trying to run a business when Anukalp faced problems in the job, and even though Ambaji did not like Mona doing the job, Mona continued on, but without telling Ambaji. So, when Ambaji got to knew, she was very embarrassed that her daughter-in-law was trying to do everything right, she was scolding her.
In the meantime, Ambaji's daughter Hetal got married into Mona's family, and soon things started getting worse. Hetal's behavior was very much unlike Mona's; she tried to create differences in the household, even not treating her husband properly. She even lied that her inlaws were asking for dowry, and when she wanted a car, treated as if giving a car was important for her family. Hetal's husband did not appreciate the car. In turn, Hetal complained to Ambaji that it was Mona who was causing her problems, and that is when she got the shock of her life. Ambaji, her own mother, slapped her hard and told her that all this was Hetal's fault, Mona was somebody who was always trying to do good for her family.
On the other hand, life was getting tough for Anukalp in the office since Goldie made his way back into the serial, in the form of becoming Anukalp's boss, insulting him and making his life stressful and difficult.